Finds // Las Cosas Encontré

In our never-ending quest to prepare for the apocalypse, we have found a non-electric, old-school coffee grinder for only 5 clams. Of course, there may not be any coffee in the apocalypse, but that’s a different issue.

I also found a two sets of these kitschy wall hangings that I’ve been collecting since we moved to New England for my kitschy Revolutionary War wall. This set (above) was only $4. The set below I actually found last week and decided against them because the set was more than I wanted to spend. They were still there today so I convinced myself that I needed them. When the lady rang us out, the total bill was less than we were expecting, so either she or we calculated wrong and I’m all the more happy about giving in to my obsessions.

When I was a kid we always had weird kitschy stuff like this on the walls. I think we had relatives that were in the Civil War, so we had a bunch of crazy, what-some-might-call borderline racist memorabilia all over the walls. I liked the kitsch factor of it, but I prefer the Revolutionary War mostly because of where we live and partly because of the idealism of independence.